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Hi Aistis
i did have onboard sound turned off already.
Buti have new pc (laptop) and have been trying it with ubuntustudio, which is realtime kerel, whatever that means and since turning the onboard sound off the focusrite has behaved fine. not recorded with it yet as i have to make sure this real time kernel does not affect dreamweaver and photoshop. But will do. I do find ubuntu studio slightly less stable than Mint strangely. so i may yetwipe it alland go for a more recent version of mint and see how that does - not fussed about Jack - i just record with Audacity as hard disk recorder.

tomwgf wrote:Hi Aistis
i did have onboard sound turned off already.
Buti have new pc (laptop) and have been trying it with ubuntustudio, which is realtime kerel, whatever that means and since turning the onboard sound off the focusrite has behaved fine. not recorded with it yet as i have to make sure this real time kernel does not affect dreamweaver and photoshop. But will do. I do find ubuntu studio slightly less stable than Mint strangely. so i may yetwipe it alland go for a more recent version of mint and see how that does - not fussed about Jack - i just record with Audacity as hard disk recorder.

Mine is also turned off in the bios, but it makes no difference (in my case), for whatever reason pulse mixer likes to default to it from time, to time. That was why my games on wine were not having any sound, while other apps had no problem. That link kind of solved it, but ubuntu rewrote the settings after restart and after another one, it didn't. Somtimes it seems like a big cynic wrote the whole code, just to laugh at a new linux user.

In any case, realtime kernel (kernel being the heart of the operating system) is a thing that makes your system respond faster to input and output operations, so you don't get lag or errors when using fast computing programs, like a synthesizer or whatnot. Don't know what the trade-off is, but probably a default kernel is more stable (my guess).

If you go for mint, i think it still comes out with the older version of kernel, just like ubuntu 12.04. I found updating to kernel 3.10 solved the constant poping and cracking and didin't mess with my nvidia drivers, which the latest version did, so i couldn't use it.

just checked - Mint 16 is kernel 3.11.
i am going to give up ubuntustudio. I started Audacity just now and still got the 60 clicks. Though Acid 2 and the mp3 player both started fine.
As i prefer Mint i think i will try that.

Well, you could use both, as i do (keep an ubuntu vanilla and ubuntu studio) and you can boot them both from the same screen, so you don't even need to push the F11 button. I only keep studio for my audio synthesis in csound, since JACK is not copping well with default kernel, gives me a bunch of xruns from simple operations. Plus it's on SSD drive, which gives it even more speed for complicated processes. For other stuff i use vanilla ubuntu on a regular HDD drive.